Some Things Can Not Be Quarantined, Like Compassion
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Dear friends around the world who supported and joined our efforts during the migrant crisis this year,
I just want to say how much you all meant to us during these incredibly challenging times.Things were difficult and challenging. There were moments, with Sachyam and the migrants by the side of the road, where things felt almost impossible and shockingly overwhelming and scary. Little by little, we went from being the most alone and overwhelmed we’d ever felt, to the most inspired and connected. I remember waking up one day after two hours of sleep, and my phone literally blowing up. It was Nepali celebrities, it was partner organizations across the region and Nepal, it was young people at every border across Nepal getting out to the streets, it was government leaders, it was youth and grassroots movements and business owners. Everyone said the same thing. We’ve got this, how can we help? Suddenly we all became a team, a country, and a world working together to address a tragedy. The way you all stepped up, the way you were there, is something I’ll remember and hold in my heart for the rest of my life. You instilled more hope and faith in me and our shared humanity than I’ve ever had and maybe that I will ever have. I think what united us the most and brought us all together was our compassion. We remembered we are all one family, a collective. That the migrants trying desperately to get home could have been our children, our brothers and sisters, our grandparents. Desmond Tutu said “we are members of one family, the human family.”
To the migrant population in Nepal. We see you and we will continue to do better and be by your side as we continue to recover from effects of covid19. We can do better.